Rescue teams despair in flattened Iran quake villages
Alireza Haidaree has been up all night carefully directing the spade of his bulldozer through the rubble of mud-brick homes in a desperate search for survivors from the deadly quakes that rocked northwestern Iran. “This village is a mass grave,” he says, his hollow voice betraying his exhaustion and his frustration at not finding more people alive. “There are so many other villages that have been completely destroyed.” Baje Baj, a village 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Varzaqan in Iran's northwest, is just one of dozens that were ...
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